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multi configuration same language

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kotlin

Research direction

Start with the Gradle Kotlin configuration shown in the issue, focusing on the two java blocks, targetExclude, and cleanthat(). Determine whether multiple configurations for the same language can be combined while applying the license header broadly and Cleanthat selectively. Done means the configuration supports those separate scopes or clearly documents the limitation and the supported way to exclude the named file.

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Description

So, due to an incompatibility down the stack with java 21 (at the time of this writing) I'm trying to have cleanThat skip a specific file. I'm not certain based on their docs if I can skip a specific file with this. Anyways, I tried this, hoping it might work (also tried adding a target)

  java {
    licenseHeader(copyright + javaLicense)
  }
  
  java {
    targetExclude("**/TransactionBeanPostProcessorTest.java")
    cleanthat().addMutators(listOf("SafeAndConsensual", "SafeButNotConsensual"))
  }

yeah, that doesn't work, but could it? my hope was taking 2 passes, license header over everything, but clean that over most things. As it appears I'll have to choose to skip this one file entirely or remove clean that entirely (I doubt it finds problems for me anyways).

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